Information
Date : 1843 - 47
Size : O-ban / Triptych
Impression : Good
Condition : Good
Detail : Restored small wormholes
Taira no Yoshikado who is a son of Taira no Masakado got a magic power and plotted the subversion of the state with his sister Takiyasha. In this artwork, he is watching the match of magic toads that are transformed from pebbles.
Kuniyoshi was one of the pupils of Toyokuni and was a late bloomer than Kunisada and other pupils.
Around the Bunsei-period, he published "108 Heroes of the Popular Suikoden", and it created a sensation and it made him popular. He was called "Warrior-painter-Kuniyoshi", and he became one of the most popular Ukiyo-e artists.
Since then, he had created various attractive artworks that excelled in high drawing techniques, fascinated composition sense, and fantastic ideas and characters, without sticking to the framework of the Ukiyo-e.